Chapter 203: Chaos Secrets

"The battle in the Chaos Era back then was less a chaotic melee and more a struggle over the Dao."

Pangu spoke slowly.

"A struggle over the Dao?"

The assembled giants pondered thoughtfully.

As for Shichen and Yang Mei, they merely curled their lips, their expressions somewhat grim.

"The Chaos was perilous and violent; only beings nurtured by the Great Dao could survive. The Chaos of that time was not as gentle as it is now."

"If placed in the past, any being below the Luo Jin Xian Realm would die upon touching it; only beings above the Hunyuan Realm possessed a sliver of self-preservation."

"You only know of the Three Thousand Chaos Demons, but the Great Dao has three thousand, while the minor Dao is nearly infinite; you should know this, correct?"

Pangu said.

The assembled giants nodded.

This was naturally clear.

The number of minor Dao branches a single Great Dao could extend was vast; even they, or those of higher realms, could hardly describe exactly how many branches a Great Dao's minor Dao possessed.

"The Three Thousand Chaos Demons are the Three Thousand Great Dao Chaos Demons, born to nurture the Great Dao, but the minor Dao was not absent. In the Chaos Era back then, the number of minor Dao demons was not merely billions of trillions, but certainly exceeded billions."

Pangu said indifferently.

The pupils of the assembled giants contracted slightly.

Billions of minor Dao Chaos Demons!

What this meant was self-evident.

At least billions of experts above the Luo Jin Xian Realm!

"Because the Chaos was disordered, battles and similar situations occurred frequently. Moreover, with no passage of time or other rules, even created things could hardly exist for long within the Chaos."

"And this situation led to us Chaos Demons fighting nothing but battles. Thus, fighting until the end, only the Three Thousand Chaos Demons remained in the Chaos."

"Among these Three Thousand Chaos Demons were Great Dao demons and minor Dao demons. It was only because there were merely three thousand left that they were called the Three Thousand Great Dao Chaos Demons. Just like me; what I wield is not the Great Dao, but rather a minor Dao that I have strengthened to its utmost."

"To change this phenomenon, I intended to open the heavens and recreate, evolving a new heaven from the Chaos to create a world suitable for any being to exist, one that would not be as dull and tasteless as the Chaos. This is also my mission."

Pangu spoke slowly.

"So this is the origin of opening the heavens..."

The assembled giants pondered thoughtfully.

If spoken this way, it could be explained.

The Chaos was disordered, rules did not yet exist, almost nothing was present, everywhere was a vast white expanse; aside from sleeping, one could only cultivate, or else fight. How could that possibly be interesting?

It was not much different from being imprisoned and confined; one must ask, who could endure it, and who would not feel tortured and pained?

"I am Pangu, the strongest Chaos Demon. Step by step, I rose from a minor Dao demon to the peak of the Three Thousand Chaos Demons. In my time, the entire Chaos trembled because of me. Looking across the Chaos Era, who dared to be my enemy?"

"If I were to open the heavens, I would open the strongest heaven, the most terrifying heaven. If I were to let the new heaven grow step by step, that would not be my wish, nor my goal. Therefore, I sought out other Chaos Demons."

Speaking of this, an expression of pride and high spirits appeared on Pangu's face. His voice rang out with force, as if containing strange phenomena; in a daze, one could see the image of Pangu moving freely and invincibly within the Chaos.

This was truly so, unlike Yang Mei, who was merely bragging.

When he attained the Dao, the entire Chaos was left with only his figure; all Chaos Demons became mere foils. Beneath Pangu's greatness, even Shichen and Yang Mei, who wielded time and space, appeared dim and without light.

This could be seen from the fact that although Shichen and Yang Mei were displeased, they did not refute him.

Hearing Pangu's words and recalling the series of things Pangu had just said, vaguely, the group of giants already had some guesses.

"If opening the strongest new heaven, then a massive amount of powerful Great Dao rules would be needed for filling. As for the strength of Great Dao rules, who in the Primordial World could compare to the Chaos Demons?"

"Although I can nurture three thousand Great Dao rules, those are too weak, and their growth is too slow."

"But if the Dao fruits of the Three Thousand Chaos Demons are all merged into the Primordial World, thus, the strongest Primordial World can be achieved, creating the strongest world I am capable of creating."

Indeed, Pangu's words confirmed the guesses of all the giants, making everyone's scalp tingle slightly.

A madman!

You are truly crazy, and you are truly ruthless.

Listen, is that human speech?

Want to forge the strongest world? Just merge the Dao fruits of the strong into the Primordial World. Is that acceptable?

"Listen to you. Is this human speech? Is this even human speech? We were quite willing; we were doing fine in the Chaos when Pangu came to our door, and he even demanded our Dao fruits."

"Could we give them? If we gave them, would we have any path to survival? If we didn't give them, he would attack; we had absolutely no way to stop him."

Yang Mei said with a bitter heart.

"I said, once I create the new heaven, I will consume my primordial source to use your Dao fruits to resurrect you, making you the first beings of the Primordial World."

"By that time, with your Dao fruits added and the luck of the new heaven supporting you, your potential will even be greater than before."

Pangu frowned and said.

"You speak beautifully, but can we believe it? Dare we believe it?"

"The Dao fruit is where our entire primordial source lies. If it is lost, we will also perish. If you do not resurrect us, what then? Would we not have died in vain? How grievous would that death be?"

"Yes, your Pangu has high credibility in the Chaos, but this is being at someone's mercy. Even if credibility is high, what does it matter?"

"If it were you, Pangu, unless it were truly a good brother with whom you shared life and death, would you believe a stranger asking you to trust him? This is a proposition that simply cannot be established."

Yang Mei sneered.

"..."

Pangu was speechless.

That is the logic.

He admitted it himself; otherwise, he would not have spoken of a struggle over the Dao.

There is nothing to say about a struggle over the Great Dao. The victor becomes king, the loser becomes a bandit; it is all fate. Just accept it.

"No wonder it was called a struggle over the Dao."

The great powers all understood.

Isn't this exactly a contest over the Dao?

Resurrect Pangu wanted to open a new heaven, borrowing the new heaven to break through and attain the Great Dao, and so he wanted the Chaos Demon Gods to lend a hand.

Other matters aside, perhaps they would have given face for Resurrect Pangu's sake, but this concerned their very lives — what face was there to speak of? They certainly couldn't agree, so naturally they could only fight it out to determine victory and defeat.

"Why didn't you just hide so that Daoist friend Resurrect Pangu couldn't find you? Why did you have to fight him?"

Especially Di Jun asked in confusion.

"Hide? Hide my ass. That bastard Resurrect Pangu isn't even human. We thought of that at first, and then almost all the Chaos Demon Gods hid themselves. Those who were found by Resurrect Pangu could only consider themselves unlucky."

"The result was that when that bastard Resurrect Pangu saw that we were all hiding, he simply didn't bother looking anymore and went straight to opening the heavens."

"But when he opened the heaven, he directly drew upon the great momentum of Chaos. If we didn't go, our Dao Fruits would also be damaged — affected by the great momentum of Chaos and merging into the Great Desolation. Did we even have a choice?"

"We could only go and stop Resurrect Pangu, and then the outcome you all already know — we were simply no match for Resurrect Pangu."

"Fortunately, I, along with Shichen and several other Daoist friends, saw the situation was bad and ran... ahem, I mean, saw that Resurrect Pangu was heavily wounded and didn't want to take advantage of his plight, so we chose to leave."

"If not for that, if we had merely been injured, how could we have had to cultivate for so long before recovering to this realm?"

"It's truly because a portion of our Dao Fruits was merged into the Great Desolation by Resurrect Pangu, causing our recovery speed to grow slower and slower."

"Actually, even if it weren't now, before long Wudengye Society would emerge and return to the Great Desolation — otherwise it would be impossible to recover more of our cultivation base."

Yang Mei, his face darkening, couldn't help but blurt out a curse, and then in one breath laid out the entire situation, leaving all the Great Desolation great powers exchanging glances.

Ruthless — Resurrect Pangu truly was ruthless.

You want to hide?

No matter — I'll just draw upon the power of all of Chaos to open the heaven!

Hide?

All Chaos Demon Gods were born from Chaos; one could say they were tainted by the karmic ties of Chaos, or that they were intimately bound with Chaos. They couldn't not intervene unless they wanted to watch their Dao Fruits drain away with open eyes.

One path meant certain Dao Fruit drain; the other, resistance still held hope. What else could they do? Naturally, it was better to stake it all and gamble.

Mm, and then they all got sent to GG amid cheers and laughter — if Yang Mei and the others hadn't run fast, they'd have kicked the bucket too. This was the terror of Resurrect Pangu, the strongest Demon God: even in his heavily wounded state, he still forced the Chaos Demon Gods to dare not approach!

"Wait, I've noticed something off."

At this moment, Supreme Hongjun, who had remained silent and listened carefully, spoke up thoughtfully.

At these words, everyone instinctively turned their gazes toward Supreme Hongjun.

Something off?

Where could anything be off? Why hadn't they noticed it?

"Daoist friend Resurrect Pangu, when you opened the heaven back then, although some Chaos Demon Gods escaped, the majority of them perished at your hands, isn't that right?"

Supreme Hongjun turned his gaze toward Resurrect Pangu and said.